Letter to the editor: EPA cuts will damage Americans’ health

Tribune-Review | Thursday, March 20, 2025 8:00 a.m.

I read with sadness about mass firings planned for the Environmental Protection Agency. How terrible for the health and safety of every American.

When government agencies are gutted and civil servants are fired, the excuse is often that private industry can do it more efficiently, but private industry doesn’t want to do what the EPA does. They don’t want to find out which of their chemicals cause cancer. They don’t want to know what their industrial pollution does to our health.

We the people created the EPA to fight for us against corporations who think our lives are cheap compared to profits. The destruction of the EPA will be a blow to our ability to protect ourselves from corporate greed.

Dawn Antoline-Wang

New Alexandria